Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Nov 2007 22:44 UTC
"AROS has gained lots of bugfixes and improvements in the lastest weeks. For istance, Neil Cafferkey has corrected some important bugs is his beloved AROS Installer; Nic Andrews has worked on his RTL8139 network driver; and Robert Norris has fixed file notifications, which previously broke preferences, just to name three."
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2005-06-29
It's not so much that I want underpowered and overpriced hardware, but more to do with the experience that I mentioned in my previous post.
The plug and play bit? Err,that's hardly a hardware feature - it's a software issue. Plug and play's success depends solely on the availability of drivers; if the operating system does not have the drivers installed before you insert your hardware, plug and play doesn't work.
In other words, Windows, Linux, and Max OS X probably have plug and play support a million times that of Amiga, for the simple fact that each of these (esp. Linux) have much wider default hardware support.
All the things that you mention in your post can easily be achieved with standard, off-the-shelf components - just look at the Intel Macs.
An experience that the x86 platform doesn't provide.
I've been hearing this stuff for ages now, yet nobody ever gave me a compelling reason why this obsession with clearly inferior hardware should hold the Amiga OS hostage.